Yeah, even though Romero isn't as good as he used to be, no one else in Hollywood has taken the mantle. If critics honestly think World War Z is the closest we've gotten to Romero's quality of zombie filmmaking, that is supremely disappointing.

Land of the Dead is a fun, campy zombie movie... But his original trilogy... Those were zombie films. Land has some neat ideas, but nothing approaching the social commentary in Night, Dawn or even Day(which already a bit of a step down from Dawn, but it at least felt relevant to the time)

I think Romero has lost touch, because how much more Zombie films can he make? How many new apocalyptic stories can one man create?

I think I read somewhere that he actually wanted to stop doing Zombie films, and do something else. But it never got anywhere, I think it was because every time he went to pitch something, he'd get rejected and asked to do another zombie movie again, I dunno.

I also think zombies are a bit overused, and while popular, they don't feel relevant to today's society. Each of Romero's living dead films managed to have something to say about the 60s, the 70s and the 80s.

And Romero still tries to do that, and I respect that. But Diary of the Dead was still a stupid movie, and the social commentary felt forced and hollow.

I actually think Diary of the Dead is fairly decent, especially considering the slew of found footage films that have come out since Paranormal Activity. The majority have been much worse. Certainly it isn't on par with the original trilogy (Night, Dawn, Day), but it isn't far below Land of the Dead.